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AMANDLA! - SOUTH AFRICA PROTEST MUSIC

1.5.2004

(Amandla)

The movement against apartheid created an unbelievably rich and vivid music culture in South-Africa. This award-winning documentary introduces Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Abdullah Ibrahim and many other great musicians who sang and played against apartheid but did not gain reputation outside the country.

Director: Lee Hirsch



MIGHT IS RIGHT

12.5.2004

(Toisen maan kansalaisia)

An immigrant is a member of another nation. What if he or she is also treated as an alien in the new home country? Belgian director, Patric Jean, toured French suburbs and faced a different reality.

Director: Patric Jean
Production: Centre Video de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2002



A TASTE OF EUROPE

12.5.2004

(Miljoonakylvö)

The European Union grants huge sums of money to agriculture. Nick Fraser is a journalist living in London who does not want the beautiful European countryside to disappear, but at the same time he does not understand why preserving it requires such enormous sums of money. This dilemma on his mind, Nick embarks on a long journey through Europe in order to find out about the EU's agricultural principles.

Director: Ben Lewis
Production: TV2 Danmark, Denmark 2002



CLOSING

19.5.2004

(Viimeinen päivä)

Flavia started her career as a hair dresser when she was eleven years old. For the past 43 years she has run her business in the town of Padova in Northern Italy, but the time has come to close the doors of her beauty parlour for the last time.

Directors: Carlo Cresto-Dina and Alessandro Rossetto
Production: Fandango and Millennium Film, Italy, 2001



HOUSE OF LOVE

19.5.2004

(Rakkauden talo)

In the Namibian desert by the sea lies a small seaport called Walvis Bay. Four prostitutes talk about their life in this calm and atmospheric documentary.

Director: Cecil Moller
Production: Steps For The Future, South Africa, 2001



MAY THE LUCK BE WITH YOU

26.5.2004

(Onni sinua matkallasi seuratkoon)

A documentary about the last months at the Vuosaari dockyard.

Director: Jarmo Jääskeläinen
Production: TV2 Documentaries, Finland, 2004



BROADWAY

26.5.2004

(Broadway)

An excellently filmed documentary about Russians spending their holidays by the Black Sea at the resort called Broadway. The documentary was filmed in a few weeks' time and it features, among others, flirting youngsters, karaoke singers and a photographer on the beach with a monkey. The film was awarded at the Nyon Film Festival in 2002.

Director: Vitali Manski
Production: MA.JA.DE Film, Germany, 2002